This expert is located in North Dakota and has nearly 15 years of expertise in grocery supply and equipment manufacturing, distribution, sales and repair. He began his career as a flight simulator tech at NASA, before transitioning to an industrial mechanic position with API. He then entered into the grocery business in 2003 as superintendent of construction for Save Mart Supermarkets where he would supervise construction and remodels of all 300 chain-supermarkets, ...
This expert has over 30 years of experience in regulatory affairs and compliance. He earned his BS in industrial technology from the University of North Texas. He formerly managed and served as director of compliance for RadioShack, including manufacturing domestic and off-shore retail. He has experience in product development, engineering, and regulatory affairs, and he is also familiar with a number of international and federal regulatory standards. He is currently the ...
This expert has been involved with the vehicle service and repair industry for over 14 years, with nearly ten years of experience in commercial vehicle upfitting. Formerly, he held roles as a service advisor with A-1 Electric where he provided upfitting services for trucks and buses being converted to run on compressed natural gas, and as a shop foreman for A-Z bus sales where he specialized in upfitting buses for school districts, public transportation, and private ...
This expert has over 30 years experience working in the equipment rental industry across the country. He has been the General Manager of an equipment rental company in Sothern California for about 15 years. He has held positions such as Branch Manager, Purchasing Agent and General Manager while working in the industry....
This highly qualified expert earned his BS in Industrial Technology from Illinois State University and is a TUV certified functional safety engineer. He has 20 years of experience as a machine builder and has spent the last seven years as a machine guarding consultant. Formerly, he has serviced as the manager of sentinel machine safety and a functional safety engineer at GP Strategies. Currently, he is a corporate trainer at an automation company in IL....
This food scientist earned his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after completing his BS from at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. At his current academic institution, he has served as Chairman of the Department and Director of the Graduate Program in Food Science and now holds the academic rank of Professor Emeritus. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and 8 books in the areas of food safety microbiology, fermentation ...
This highly qualified expert has over 25 years of experience in arboriculture. Today, he is a certified arborist in the state of Texas, and he is certified in tree risk assessment. He previously served as a field worker at Thompson Tree Service and as the head arborist at Tree Masters. This expert is currently the owner of and an arborist at an arboriculture company in Texas....
This highly-qualified expert has 40 years of experience in the field of paper milling and paper plant safety. Over the course of his career, he has earned multiple certifications, including OSHA 14-Hour and 511 certificates, safety management I and II certifications from the American Society of Safety Professionals, a safety coordinator training certificate, and a certificate in the principles of machine safeguarding. He has worked with the Kimberly Clark Corporation his ...
This qualified expert has been installing residential and commercial overhead doors for 19 years. He formerly served as a diesel mechanic in the United States Marine Corps and as a service and installation technician at Garage Door Systems Inc. Currently, he is the owner of a private overhead door installation company in Wisconsin that specializes in residential and commercial door installation....
This certified Safety Professional, Safety and Health Professional, and OSHA Instructor has over 30 years of experience in the field. She earned her BS in occupational safety & health at Columbia Southern University. This expert holds memberships in the American Society of Safety Professionals and the General Contractors Association. Formerly, she served as a Traffic Accident Investigator with the US Army Military Police Corps, as the Safety Director & Labor Relations ...
In late March 2021, the massive consolidated case concerning defective 3M combat earplugs lurched forward with a bellwether. This bellwether consolidates three cases (of the MDL’s 229,397 actions) in Florida’s Northern District Court. It’s intended as a harbinger of how…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently issued a record penalty against glue manufacturing company Chemence, Inc. for its violation of a 2016 order to cease deceptive marketing tactics. Now, the company must pay $1.2 million over product labels falsely claiming…
A federal appellate court in Iowa recently upheld a plaintiff expert witness’s exclusion in a workplace product liability case for their failure to satisfy the requirements of Federal Rules of Evidence 702. The decision in Hirchak v. W.W. Grainger, Inc.,…
During 2012, a client engineering company engaged my services as an industrial safety engineer after an accident had occurred in their factory whereby one of the machine operators had lost one finger due to contact with a high speed revolving blade…
Court: United States District Court for the District of Arizona Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Smilovits v. First Solar Inc. Citation: 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 221424 The plaintiffs claimed that once the company revealed the product’s flaws to the public, the…
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Blue Cross Blue Shield Ass’n v. GlaxoSmithKline LLC Citation: 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 168107 A group of health insurance firms alleges they purchased improperly manufactured…
Court: United States District Court for the District of Arizona Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: In re Bard Ivc Filters Prods. Liab. Litig. Citation: 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 211400 In this medical device MDL, the plaintiffs retain a radiology expert witness.…
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Meemic Ins. Co. v. Hewlett-Packard Co. Citation: 717 F. Supp. 2d 752 In this insurance dispute, an electrical engineering expert is tasked with…
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Gopalratnam v. Hewlett-Packard Co. Citation: 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 40386 Facts The plaintiffs’ son bought an HP laptop that contained a battery pack manufactured by…
Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Monroe Division Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Sadler v. Int’l Paper Co. Citation: 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 59422 Facts This case involves alleged airborne pollution released from a paper mill.…
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, Eastern Division Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: C.C. v. Suzuki Mgf. Am. Corp. Citation: 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 137022 Facts This case involves an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) accident. The plaintiff…
Court: United States District Court for the District of New Mexico Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Rivera v. Volvo Cars of North Am., LLC Citation: 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 179695 Facts A federal diversity personal injury case arose out of a…
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, Augusta Division Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Evanston Ins. Co. v. Xytex Tissue Servs., LLC Citation: 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 51668 Facts The defendant was a company that stored biological…